LA Times- Harbor City Narbonne has been removed from the City Section Open Division girls’ basketball playoffs and forced to forfeit its semifinal win over View Park in a decision by City Section Commissioner John Aguirre after the team wore illegal uniforms in its 57-52 win on Saturday. View Park will replace Narbonne in Saturday’s championship game against Palisades at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Narbonne also will not be allowed into the state playoffs, according to City Section administrator Dick Dornan.

The team wore uniforms with pink numbers and pink letters, in violation of City Section rules.

The fact that Narbonne was already on probation for an earlier violation of City Section rules also played a role in the decision. During last year’s state playoffs, a player who had received two techinicals ended up playing illegally in the next game when she should have had to sit out the game.

“Breast cancer awareness is in October, and there’s a process for people to request color change,” Aguirre said. “If they’re going to blatantly disregard these rules and regulations, they’re going to affect kids.”

In statement released Monday night, Principal Gerald Kobata said, “Ths a huge disappointment for the girls basketball team, a team that worked so hard to achieve success on the court and in the classroom. We were unaware that honoring cancer victims with uniforms was against California Interscholastic Federation rules. I feel badly for the students—especially the seniors—their families and the Narbonne community. Though bound by the decision, I want to make sure this never happens again here.” Narbonne Coach Victoria Sanders said she was unaware that prior approval was needed to wear pink on the uniforms.

“I was under the impression we were able to do it,” she said. “I didn’t know we had to fill out a waiver.”

The City Section has a rule that schools must wear uniforms only featuring their school colors. Earlier this school year, North Hollywood had to forfeit a girls’ volleyball match for wearing black uniforms. Black is not part of its school colors. Adding to the confusion is that University has called the City Section office today asking to get a chance to play View Park because Narbonne used the same uniforms last week in a win over University, Coach Ron Cass said. University did not file a protest at the time.

“We want to play View Park,” Cass said. The City Section denied the University request, saying the protest needed to be filed earlier.

So this story is pretty ridiculous. You shouldn’t be banned from the regional and state playoffs just because you wore a certain color on your jersey, that’s absolutely idiotic. If you won you should advance, you can’t be banned for something so trivial, especially when their hearts were in the right place in doing so. But having said that, I will say that I think the trend of “raising awareness” has lost some of its charm for me. And what I mean by that is there are a billion people in this day and age who only do things so they can get the credit for having done them. So they can put it up on their facebook or their twitter and show the world how great of a soul they are for helping this cause even though they really didn’t do anything. I’m not trying to say there aren’t a lot of good people out there who truly want to help, I just think the glory boys severely out number them. So while it’s an extremely nice and heartfelt gesture for this school to wear pink on their uni’s to show support for those affected by cancer, they could have better served those people in other ways. Like a carwash or bake sale or 50-50 raffle at the playoff game. I don’t want to sound like a cynical douchebag but really the only way to find a cure for these horrific diseases is money and resources. Like I said, it’s a great gesture, but the people going wild about the district banning them for trying to support cancer victims are kind of molding the narrative. Yes it’s a robotic and heartless move. They probably studied under the tutelage of the NCAA. But they didn’t steal money out of the hands of cancer donations the way some people are making it out to be. It’s a shitty move and I already said I think if you win on the court fairly you should advance no matter what jersey you wore, but let’s also not act like the school board are the sticky bandits stealing change from charity. They’re just enforcing the rigid rules without taking the time to look at them with their heart and brain. It is bullshit though and hopefully this gets reversed because I can’t imagine the disappointment of missing state playoffs just because of what color you wore that day.

Freep -One day after the University of Michigan sanctioned Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity for wreckage wrought by out-of-control partying at Treetops Resort, the Gaylord resort’s general manager said the price tag for the destruction is about $430,000, four times the original estimate.

“If you just look at our out-of-pocket expenses, things we’ve paid to contractors, third parties, it’s around $230,000. It doesn’t take into consideration management time or damage to the resort’s reputation. Our accountants and attorneys are saying that this could be up to an additional $200,000,” Barry Owens, Treetops general manager, said in an e-mail statement Saturday.

“We’re now talking a total of $430,000,” he said.

Added to that, Owens said he had reason to believe the fraternity might not pay the resort for the destruction.

“It also has become evident that the fraternity representatives have suggested that they are unwilling to pay for the damage that they caused the resort,” Owens said in the statement. He could not be reached for further explanation.

How to fucking rage 101, presented by Michigan’s Sammy. What started out as a casual weekend ski trip slowly morphed into a $50K in damages disaster…

…only to transform into a $430K full blown catastrophe. 430 Thousand! Almost half a million bucks in damages. Almost positive you could set off a bomb in the lobby then bring heavy construction equipment in to bulldoze the remaining wreckage to the ground and still come to less than $430,000 in damages. I smell a hotel trying to take advantage of some college kids who signed a pretty hefty waiver. Sucks, but then again, it would appear you picked up literally every piece of furniture in the building and smashed it into 19 pieces against the walls then ripped the ceilings out. Soooo kind of brought it on yourself there maybe.

The last of a dying breed. Everybody knows Brent openly talks about lines, this is nothing new. My only question is how much does he let ride on a game that he works? 4 grand? 5 grand? Does he bet 5 grand on these? Over 6? It can’t be 7 grand. Don’t tell me he bets $7,000 on these games. What does he bet on these games! I want to know! Oh my god, $10,000?! Ok, I’m walking out of here right now assuming he bets ten thousand dollars a game unless he tells me different.

P.S. I bet Brent was already counting his money at halftime before that outrageous comeback. That lady luck is a real cold hearted whore. Now do me a favor and roll the damn tape.

The Chainsmokers might have been responsible for “Selfie,” but these dudes are far from a one trick pony. Their follow up single, “Kanye,” was an indie pop hit, and now the NYC-based duo are back with another monster track, a progressive house smash featuring vocals from one of the best young bands on the planet. Enjoy, and look for a big 2015 out of The Chainsmokers.

Published on Mar 2, 2015 - I was walking by the drain in the faculty lot near the student center when I started to hear voices in the drains.

I did some research and some of the names were the founders of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.

KSU Sentinel – Harmonious chants echoed from the underground sewer systems of Kennesaw State University in the late evening hours of March 1 after a Sentinel staff member stumbled across voices coming from a drainage grate at the south Student Center faculty parking lot.

“I was walking across campus on a night photo-walk when I thought I heard voices coming from behind me. I turned around and there was no one there,” said Boggs. “I realized it was coming from the drain and I first thought it was echoing from somewhere else, but then I saw a cellphone underneath the drain grate and I knew people were down there. It sounded like chanting and it was very unnerving.”

In the video evidence captured by Boggs, the voices appear to recite names in unison: “Anthony Pelzer Wagener, Theodore Barnwell Kelly, James Fogarty…”

According to the Pi Kappa Phi alumni association’s website, the names being recited are those of the founding fathers of the fraternity.

A KSU Pi Kappa Phi chapter member confirmed on Monday, March 2 via telephone call that it was in fact Pi Kappa Phi in the video, but offers no further comment on the events that took place that evening.

That’s just shitty luck for Kennesaw State Pi Kapp, no pun intended. Seriously what are the odds a freaking journalist from the student newspaper is wandering directly over the exact sewer grate you’re doing your pledge chants at like 3 in the morning? Doing a “night photo-walk” like some sort of super nerd? Obviously had to run home and file his incredibly important story right away too. Couldn’t just cut some sort of deal like a normal college kid, like his own person case of beer and a room alone with a sorority chick at the next house party or something. Nope, had to get his Deep Throat on for the Sentinel. I’ll give it 24 hours before KSU Pi Kappa Phi is kicked off campus, the leadership arrested, and the pledge master executed for hazing.

So a few days ago I started getting BCC’ed these emails containing dozens of nudes. Yeah that sentence might sound weird for you guys in more standard professions but trust me, just another day in the life of the blog world.

Reader Email

Katie C <katie***@gmail.com>
Feb 27 (4 days ago)
to bcc: me

can’t believe danko’s tuition hike just so this slut can be a slut. think twice before fucking my boyfriend you stupid whore!!!!!!!!!!

(6 attachments)

I took a casual look at them obviously, as any red blooded male getting sent naked pictures out of the blue would be expected to. But it’s not like I was going to do anything with them. Believe it or not that’s not what we do here, try to blow up the spot of random chick because a jealous girl is basically blackmailing her. Probably would have been nice to contact her and let her know what was going on but to be honest I got distracted by something I had to blog and totally forgot about them.

Until I checked my inbox a few hours later and had like 8 more packages of nudes.

Reader Emails

Katie C <katie***@gmail.com> Feb 27 (4 days ago) to bcc: me

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Katie C <katie***@gmail.com> Feb 27 (4 days ago)

to bcc: me

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Katie C <katie***@gmail.com> Feb 27 (4 days ago) to bcc: me

Well… for someone who’s so into “school” this bitch has ZERO class. wait til we find those videos.

I was recently informed that an email containing naked and provocative selfies was distributed to an extensive list of my peers, colleagues, media and worst of all, students and staff of the university where my father is president. My initial reaction, was shame of course. The email labeled me a slut, amongst other unsavory words with a threat to leak a video as well.

Instead of taking these pictures and shaming me as well CO-ED Media reached out to me and very tastefully presented what had happened (LINK HERE). I was hurt, shocked and mortified. I briefly wondered who hated my family so much to try and embarrass my dad by somehow finding my personal pictures and attempting to humiliate my family.

After my moment of self-pity, I decided: WHO GIVES A FUCK. Whatever this person was trying to prove, they did not. I am a daughter, friend, sister, granddaughter, niece, girlfriend, cousin but most importantly I am Melanie Danko a 26 year old woman who isn’t perfect by any means but I’m proud of my naked body. I’m not ashamed of how I look and nobody should be. If you want to get naked, take pictures, have safe sex with someone you trust—you should! You shouldn’t be ashamed to be who you are. Look at you! You are so hot! There are so many people in this world who think YOU are gorgeous and want to see you naked! You should be proud of your body, never ashamed.

I’m no stranger to gossip on campuses, heck, due to my dad’s profession I’ve lived on more campuses than I can count on my fingers and I am so incredibly lucky to have that experience and I am so proud of my dad for putting up with the immense stressors that goes along with his professional life. College is a time to figure it out, learn in and outside the classroom. I’m not a doctor, not a professor, just a simple girl who struggled with her grades but I do want to teach you one thing: love yourself.

Now here are the nudes that I want you to see, because guess what, I take a lot of nude selfies. I’ve made sex tapes. I do it because I like to. These are not the one somebody found via 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th party, these are mine and now they’re yours too.

Love,

Melanie Joy Danko

PS: I still don’t fully understand how the cloud works. Just throwing that out there. Does anyone?

I took a quick inventory and after some careful consideration, yup, I think this might be my favorite girl on the planet. Just such an incredible, ballsy move by her to do this. Straight out of the Michael Scott school of journalism, get out in front of the story or it controls you. I mean these are the perils of being a chick. If you take nudes and make sex tapes you’re branded a slut, even if it’s on the (supposed) privacy of your own phone. Got to be the absolute worst feeling in the world knowing an entire collection of pictures like this are out there floating around on random BCC lists, especially when you are who you are and your dad is who he is. Have them get leaked and you’re a whore – post them yourself and you’re a cool ass chick. Melanie went with the latter and crushed it.

And she didn’t just post her nudes, she wrote up basically the most empowering essay for women I’ve ever seen. Everything that feminism SHOULD be. Being comfortable with yourself and your sexuality, doing whatever you want to do and whatever makes you happy, fuck what everyone else thinks or says about you. Respect.